Politics Quotes · Page 225

You have to know what you are and what you're not. And I'm not a politico.

— Colin Cowherd

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

— Tacitus

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

— Richard O'Brien

If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.

— George W. Bush

As an athlete, there are limits to my ability to reach out, a platform that politics can offer.

— Dutee Chand

“Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.”

— Samuel Butler

“A Reforma Política é importante, mas nenhuma reforma será maior do que a conscientização popular.”

— Victor Bello Accioly

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

— Thomas Hobbes

The governments of south Sudan must make sure that everybody will get a nationality - that nobody will become stateless because of…

— Antonio Guterres

I was brought up in a house where I was so aware of a life that had been broken by politics and…

— Michael Portillo

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in…

— Neil Kinnock

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S.…

— Barton Gellman

High-level corruption, inefficiency, non-governance, and policy paralysis have crippled the nation's economy.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

“My romantic history since arriving on Novo has been non-existent, but I don't know what, if anything, came before; thanks to the…

— Siobhan Davis

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to…

— Stephen Breyer

People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.

— Arthur Laffer

I grew up outside of Washington D.C., a town in which the largest industry is government and in which almost everyone I…

— Kerry Kennedy

China likes the idea of sovereign rights when it comes to organizing their politics as they see fit, and their economics. But…

— Richard N. Haass

“I could never feel like that about any public issue. Sometimes I wish I could. For me, if I'm honest, politics is…

— David Lodge

If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that…

— Newt Gingrich

I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing…

— Paul Wolfowitz

Constitutions are violated, and it would be absurd to expect the federal government to enforce the Constitution against itself. If the very…

— John Taylor

Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics…

— Christine Pelosi

Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And…

— Alan Keyes

I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

— Sam Wyly

In war as in politics, Neave's attitude was always to get on with it.

— Kemi Badenoch

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

— Ronald Reagan

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

— Aneurin Bevan

I have rarely seen the government do anything that was effective.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.

— Lou Reed

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

— John George Nicolay

The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.

— Aristotle

With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.

— Pauly Shore

I do not think it's good public policy to put 300,000 more Mississippians on government health care.

— Tate Reeves

Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

— Laozi

The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny...

— John C. Danforth

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

— Imelda Marcos

“Our politicians always show lame excuse to defend their cripple decisions.”

— Munia Khan